Skate World Championship Niihama wins Japanese men's first overall title in 33 years March 1 1:04
The world championship of speed skating in Norway will be held on the second day of the tournament on the 29th, and the 23-year-old Tatsuya Niihama, the 23rd-year-old Sprint boy who will determine the best short distance in the world I won the championship. This is the first sprint in the world for a Japanese male player in Sprint.
The World Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, Norway has been integrated from this season with the World Sprint Championship and the World All-Round Championship.
Among the men in the “Sprint” competition, where they skated twice at 500m and 1000m each to compete in the overall results, Shinhama, who took the overall top on the first day, came on the 29th, the second day of the tournament .
Shinhama was the second person in the world last season, the second time in a 500-meter range for the first time in a 33-second range for a Japanese player, and ranked first with a time of 34:39. In the second run at 1000 meters, he showed a tenacious slip and finished third in 1m8.71s, achieving the first overall championship with a total point of 137.465 for all two events.
This is the first time in 33 years since a Japanese male athlete in the short distance "sprint" in the world since Akira Kuroiwa in 1987.